ntarctica

Hi, my name is anti and I'm a recovering rac-yakker. Still coming to terms with its demise, but it is always fun to see old friends (cakes, cgw, arnod, Mary-Caroline, Sophie, ACE, if I forgot anyone I apologize) and meet new people.

I might not post on this board as often as I like, but with Rac-Yak gone, I need an outlet for my vast tennis knowledge

I join with Trente-Quinze (whatever the heck that means...oh, shoot, can't we just keep calling you "Arnod," you silly Frog?) in thanking you for granting the Yakkers asylum here. Here's hoping we don't turn it INTO an asylum.

Yeah I felt like changing identities but almost refrained from because I know how disturbing it is for others. After all I still mainly refer to Yamotha as Cakes, which I guess is a good thing considering that's how she registered here.

However I chose Arnaud/Arnod in 2 seconds when I first registered on the old msnbc bbs and it wasn't the brightest idea I ever had even though I've got used to it as anybody else. So you are still allowed to refer to me as Arnod and will always be.

Trente-quinze means thirty-fifteen in French.30 because I'm in my 30ies and 15 because that's about the age I was when I got hooked to tennis (needless to say, I will never switch to 40-15)

I was also tired to have people confused on my gender. Please note how much more gender-explicit trente-quinze is compared to arnod.

Whew, glad to hear the seeding challange thing we do here is different, we will carry on with that format and define it as we go. I think our next step is to just award more points like I mentioned above for picking players to go further so we can get out of having a 3 way tie for first place.

Welcome RY board members!!!

The "bracquety challenge" was basically predicting (before the start of a slam) the last 8, last 4, last 2 players and final winner.

I don't think Mat can "claim paternity" of the idea considering some kind of bracket competitions exist everywhere. However I perfectly understand - and agree - that he'd like to protect the exact concept, especially as he is now talking of maybe opening another site in the future.

Whatever, we are not coming here to import and impose all our "bad customs". There are many ways to devise fun little games and your seeding challenge does seem to be an interesting idea.

The Avatar is the image next to your name. It looks like you linked to one on delorie.com and they are not allowing that. They replaced it with a huge red box that says please do not link to this image. Check it out next to your name on any post you made. Not the first time we have seen something like that, you never know who might do that.

If you have an avatar you like I can put it on my website for you to link to, I promise I will not diss you with the big red box.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg

lizbeth

Testing. I have no idea what I'm doing, but wanted to try to get on this board with some of my fellow RakYakkers to say hi. I haven't registered b/c I'm too out of it technologically to figure out how to do it on my WebTv, but I'll find a way.........lizbeth